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From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:24:48 -0500
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:17:24 PST." <p0510100bb860e797ece0@[165.227.249.20]>
Sender: owner-keydist@cafax.se
Subject: Re: From whence we came...


>>>>> "IMC" == IMC  <Paul> writes:
    IMC> At 9:43 PM -0500 1/7/02, Derek Atkins wrote:
    >> I think we're already assuming EDNS0 and DNSSEC, which already requires
    >> support for >512 bytes (and provides a way of negotiating support).
    >> So, no, size is not (really) an issue.

    IMC> OK, I admit that I am a bit naive about DNS politics. I thought that 
    IMC> the objection to >512 octets was regardless of EDNS0. That is, even 
    IMC> though the end systems are supposed to support longer packets, the 
    IMC> UDP fragmentation happens in the middle of the net, and the end 

  I think that there are significant advantages to keeping things in a single 
packet, especially if is 1280 the real lower limit.

  I also also seen that there are significant portions of the network where TCP port
53 has been closed. Clueless ISPs.

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